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Mason Rack Band breaks beyond blues with harder alt-rock and roots. Singer songwriter Mason Rack (son of Jazzman Billy Rack) from Gold Coast Qld was raised on jazz, rock and surfing. Mason excels on Weissenborn lap slide guitar, uniting his broken glass vocals with smooth ballads and edgy rock songs. Expect flashes of Tom Waits and Hendrix, melting towards Ben Harper, with screaming slide, Steele Chabau’s big bass, Canadian Joel “Thunderfoot” Purkess’ big drums, and a big interactive show-drum trio/duel thing involving all three guys in a moving percussion explosion display. The band tours Australia and Canada, playing alongside artists like Jimmy Barnes, Xavier Rudd, Phil Emmanuel, Tex Perkins, Renee Geyer. Invited serially to Adelaide International Guitar Fest, Byron Bay Bluesfest, Blues on Broadbeach, Woodford, Gympie Muster’s “The best new blues/roots act ever seen”, and many Canadian festivals. From silky ballad to raging raw rock - Mason Rack Band.
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Electric blues rock band THE HIPSHOOTERS - stinging guitar solos with solid rock, smooth funk & groove all mixed in. Upbeat original songs mix it with popular standards from Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix and high charged R n B flavours. Get up and dance - the blues is all about feeling good. A jolt of Texas blues & solid rock from New Zealanders Anton Tipi Elkington firing up a lead guitar avalanche & vocals, bassman Billy Williams evokes a city sized generator & drummer Grunta Redfed powerfully thrashes it into sync. Experience Stevie Ray Vaughan & Jimi Hendrix and original high charged R n B.
The Hipshooters are a powerful band capable of attracting a good cross section of music lovers and Blues as a genre is gaining momentum again – we’re on a rising wave.
www.myspace.com/thehipshooters
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Founded in 1999 by singer/songwriter Brad Palmer on lead guitar, harp and vocals, singing drummer Paul Holmberg and rhythm guitarist Mark “Numbers” Buhmann, the lads take their travelling blues from SE Qld beach to festival to outback Victoria. Young gun bassist Daniel Aurora joined the line up in early 2010. Bluesville Station takes the road rolling sounds of Creedence, mixes it with Neil Young and Johnny Winter’s blues, throw in strong rock influences like Eric Clapton, Canned Heat, emerging with their own original sound. Festivals include Gympie Muster, Blues On Broadbeach, Burleigh Solstice, 1770 Fest, and Aust Blues Fest Goulburn. Blues radio plays them around Aust, Europe & USA, song ‘Keep On Rollin' was used in a Utah media campaign for train travel and standout offering Spanglish ‘No Tengo Dinero’, comes a long way from the band’s roots in original dashtapping boogie music about rolling down the highway.
If you like to rock it up, step out and boogie or just sit back and relax to enjoy some travellin' blues, jump off right here. The lads down at the Station are fired up and ready to roll with a swag of music and entertainment to make you feel good and ease your worried mind.
www.bluesvillestation.com.au
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